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1. \"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.\" Amen. How many of you out there guessed I was going to mention that verse? Show of hands?... Yep, thought so. How could I not. (I decided I should just mention it right away so we can think about it more.) How do we think every day? Do you ever think about the way you think? What kind of question is that? A pretty good one. What do you think about every day, why do you think about it, and how often? What do you think about others? Do you tell yourself positive things or negative things? Do you tell yourself lies or half-truths? Do you think about God\'s promises instead of the world\'s worries and know-it-all widsom? How often do you think about what is true and honest? What is just and pure? What\'s lovely and of good report?
2. Our thoughts have so much power in our lives and we can easily forget that. Rick Warren wisely states in the Purpose-Driven Life that \"the way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you act.\" That means how we think can determine how we treat people, our attitudes, what we believe, what we eat, what we accomplish, what we attempt and everything else. Yowza. Can you say underestimated?
3. There is so much we could discuss in this area, and I could talk about it forever until I had a good-sized book. However, I don\'t want to spend too much time on this and risk losing your interest. I have committed both mistakes before--saying too much about something and not saying enough, and I want to find a good balance. If I so choose, I could expound on one or more topics another day but for now I just want to take a quick look at a few topics including right thoughts, focus, remembrance, and more.
4. Before I begin with the spiritual stuff, do you want to know an amazing weight loss secret? One that is almost always guaranteed to work and has benefited millions of people? Listen carefully and I\'ll tell you. The secret... is diet and exercise. Gasp! No! Not those two words! No no no! Anything but that! Yes, accept it. Scream all you want but it\'s the simple truth. Why do so many of us freak out from those words? We think of miserable work, loss of favorite foods, self-torture, and the awful C-word: commitment. Isn\'t diet just the word \"die\" with a T added to it? I\'d rather be fat and tired, thank you. (Fat girls rule! lol running joke) This is not the right way to think about it.
5. Don\'t concentrate on the difficulty of the tasks, focus on the benefits and wonderful goals you want to reach; enjoying life more than you used to, and doing more activities. Getting started is the hardest part, I hear, and from there it can be much easier. Dieting doesn\'t mean you must say goodbye to everything you love to eat. Just take reasonable portions of foods, and consume enough fruits, vegetables, and grain for your needed vitamins, minerals, etc. If you drink plenty of water and give up sugary drinks you will be amazed at how much better you feel. And get enough sleep for goodness sake! (I\'m talking to myself here) Why I am bothering to talk about health and nutrition? Because a healthy Christian is one who can do more for God\'s kingdom and probably live a longer life, and because our bodies belong to Him. Our health is part of our inheritance from God, and we should be careful not to waste it like the man in the parable of the talents. \"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.\" I Corinthians 10:31
6. There\'s something I have to get off my chest. Do you know who are some of the most annoying people I know? Pessimists and cynics. Not the ones who are simply honest about life and it\'s miseries, but those who go overboard. Especially the ignorant ones who only understand part of a story and hold a biased view. I get so tired of them, though I do feel bad for them and want them to be happy. I guess that one could call me a hyprocrite for also being biased and somewhat ignorant but don\'t change the subject ;). (I\'m working on that) You\'re just going to stress yourself out if you think like that. I know it\'s hard but our Father can help us to think differently and more like Him. Yes, life is very tough and unfair, but remember that Jesus gives our lives great meaning and we have a wonderful promise of a new home, new bodies, and eternal life some day soon. Don\'t forget to praise the Lord when you\'re down and He will lift you up.
7. When Jesus gave His life for us and handed it over to evil men for our salvation, He must have needed to have extreme control of Himself and total surrender of His power. How was Jesus able to go through with His horrible crucifixion? How did He stay on for so long when He could have jumped off any time He wanted? He didn\'t focus on the pain and embarrassment, he thought about us! And the great joy he would have after he had endured it. We all need to focus on the positive and tell ourselves the truth at all times. Lying to yourself can be almost as bad, if not worse, than lying to others. I still struggle with this often and will catch myself thinking negative thoughts and I\'m working to change that with the Lord\'s help. A big thing we need to do, probably the biggest, is soak up the Word like a sponge. Read your Bible each day, underline passages that speak to you, read the passages again, think about them and what they mean to you, memorize them, believe them, and act on them.
8. Let us also remember what the good Lord has done for us in our lives, and in other\'s lives, and in the lives of His followers in the Bible. Remember His goodness. Remember His power. Remember His guidance. Remember His miralces in the past and present. Remember His wisdom. Remember His blessings and name them all. And remember that He always knows better than we do and how stupid we can be sometimes! Never look back to Egypt and think about returning there, because we often forget how terrible it was to be a slave to sin.
9. Last year I read a great book called Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyers and I have to say... wow. Conviction city. Not only does she mention the wrong ways of thinking but also lists a wandering, wondering mind in the same category. What? Just spacing off too much can be wrong? Oh my goodness. Are you kidding? It does make sense though. The phrase \"idleness is the devil\'s workshop\" can also apply to our minds. Not that we can\'t relax once in awhile but too much laziness and empty space in the attic will give the devil a chance to toss bad ideas into our heads. It seems to me that if we aren\'t moving forwards we\'re usually soon moving backwards, like a car stuck in neutral on a hill. Focus on Christ and you won\'t sink below the stormy waves.
10. So far, I bet that you\'ve been nodding your head and agreeing with what most if not all of what I\'ve said. However, my next topic may be more controversial to some of you. Question everything. If you just asked why, then congratulations! You\'re on the right path. Why should we, as Christians, have to questions everything when we know the Truth and have our sight restored so we can see the world so much more clearly than we used to? Good question. God will always lead us to the truth and give us wisdom for life when we ask. Nevertheless, there are nonbelievers in the world who are asking many hard questions about our faith and are we prepared to answer them? Like, how do we know that the Bible is accuracte? How do we know that God created the world and it didn\'t just evolve? How do we know that Jesus died and rose again? What about life after death? Purgatory? The Holy Spirit? The devil? Miracles? Jesus as the only way? Why there is a Hell? Why do we believe what we believe? It wouldn\'t hurt to learn some more about these questions. I highly recommend books on apologetics to check out, like books by Lee Strobel and \"The Top 10 Common Objections to Christianity\" by Alex Mcfarland as some excellent resources to check out.
11. Now I\'m going to take this one step farther and risk hurting my reputation and sounding crazy. (Although if you\'ve read some of my other work you may already think I\'m a little crazy) What about UFOs? They\'re not real, we\'d probably think, and they don\'t concern me. Now please stay with me for a second before you stop reading. :) ) What if they do? What if... UFOs are not actually aliens but are some kind of dark spiritual forces? And what about haunted houses where objects just fly around the room on their own and other shocking things occur? What if that is also spiritual activity? I bring this up not because I want people to believe everything I do (not concerning salvation), but because I want us to be cautious of what the devil is up to. Ephesians 2:2 calls the devil \"the prince of the power of the air\" and 2 Corinthians 11:14 says that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light. The devil wants to deceive the world (Revelation 20:10) and keep people from finding Christ, and I believe he tries to distract and entice us with the mysterious powers of things like magic, aliens, ghosts, etc, along with lies of evolution and twisted truths. Because if aliens exist then evolution sounds true and God is a liar or doesn\'t exist, and the other things can cause us to disbelieve the gospel or ignore it completely.
12. One of my family members, who is a believer and very intelligent and full of common sense, likes to research topics like aliens, nephilim (the giants before the Flood), and the end of the world from christian perspectives. What he learns is very creepy stuff, and I\'ve read some of the same things and been shocked at the theories that sound very possible. There\'s just so many strange and suspicious events that the governments and media cover up, and very very strange records of events in the world.* Again, I don\'t want you or me to focus too much on these things and become paranoid, and I surely don\'t want to waste more time arguing about theories than spreading the Gospel. I only want for us to be aware of what the devil may try to do to deceive us in the last days. Matthew 24:24 says that false Christs and false prophets will perform jaw-dropping signs and wonders (like the antichrist in Revelation) and they could deceive some of us too!! What would it take to deceive God\'s children? Amazing stuff that\'s impossible for us to explain and could awe us like a sky full of fireworks.
13. If you watch enough TV you\'ll quickly see how the devil has deceived the world. Almost everyone is trying to tell us how to think and those who dare to question something are ignored, silenced, mocked, or worse. When I watch most news reports I feel like the journalists are trying to make some people look good and others look bad, and promote their own opinions and worldly agendas. They exchange the whole truth for half-truths and I fear that many of us can be too gullible sometimes and swallow the \"information\" without questioning it. \"The media is SOOOOOOOOO slanted, if they were a mountain and someone tried to skii down it they would fall to their death!\" The devil doesn\'t stop here, though, and continues to attack the world with various distractions (such as video games and celebrity gossip), and compromises with things like questionable entertainment. Have you ever seen shows like the Simpsons, Family Guy, or South Park? I admit that I\'ve seen a few. We make an excuse that we just watch them because they\'re funny, and then we let our minds fill up with trash. The more we know God\'s Word the more we\'ll be aware of the devil\'s lies. Sorry I spent so much time on this one topic but I have a passion for truth and want everyone to find it.
14. I don\'t know if this fits with the rest of what I have been saying but I didn\'t want to wait for a better opportunity. Do you know one of the things that I love about the Gospel? That it\'s unthinkable. Think about it. Every other religion usually makes \"sense\" for the most part, but Christianity doesn\'t. Let\'s go over the main points that most of us should believe. God not only existed before time but also created time. (Scientists can complain that it isn\'t scientific but seem to forget that humans can never understand everything and ust because something doesn\'t sound scientific doesn\'t mean it\'s not) He created the entire universe by SPEAKING it into existence. God is three persons--Father, Son, and Holy Ghost--yet He\'s one at the same time. God created us because He LOVES us; He is a God of love and not indifference or hate. Since mankind rebelled against God, He gave His Son to become human LIKE US and DIE FOR US to RESCUE US. Then the Holy Spirit brought Him back to life, He preached to the souls in Hell, rose back into Heaven, and we believe that one day He will return. The world will some day be destroyed and then rebuilt to the way it should be. Many Christians consider Christianity to be not a religion but a relationship with God through His Son. Now who could think up stuff as crazy as that? Could anyone guess that God could love us that much to do the unthinkable and impossible? We could easily belive that we need to be perfect and without sin, but... for Him to do it for us? No way! Yes way. That\'s how God uses the foolish things on the world to confound the wise. It sounds ridiculous, impossible, unusual, unorthodox, and too good to be true... but it is. (And I have to laugh when I think about what terrorists hope to receive after they die. Young virgin women? How unoriginal and carnal-minded! What if someone heard wrong and they\'re actually old virgin women! Wouldn\'t that be an unpleasant surprise?)
15. Finally, there\'s a small fact we need to remember all the time, and I often forget this: we don\'t deserve God\'s love! We don\'t! Sometimes we may hear the story of Jesus\' death and resurrection so many times that we forget that Jesus didn\'t have to come and die for us. He didn\'t come to save us because we deserved it, but because of amazing, unthinkable love. When mankind disobeyed God\'s plain and simple instructions because they thought He was holding back from them, He didn\'t say \"Well, sorry, but I warned you. You\'re on your own now. Good luck.\" He ran to us, guided (and still guides) His people through history, and instructed them in the truth so many times you\'d think they (and we) would remember. And we also don\'t deserve all of the wonderful blessings He gives either, like our family, friends, home, food, clothes, and more. This realization really makes me more humble and grateful for His mercy and love.
16. So let us work to think right by changing the way we think with God\'s help. Let us chase after wisdom like an attractive, fast-running man/woman (or speeding ice cream truck if you prefer). Let us learn more about as much as we can. Let us question everything, including everything we think we know for sure. Let us remember everything that God has done for us and promised to do, and who He is and who we are. Let us not be afraid to ask for advice, especially from our wise Father. A sharp, focused mind, a surrendered heart, and a trusting and obediant soul in the hands of God are very powerful things.
Think on these things.
*Here\'s a scary fact that I have to share with you. In some places of the world people have uncovered skeletons of humans up to 36 feet tall with skulls over 5 times the size of an average human!!! I don\'t know for sure if these are real or not (maybe the skeletons were constructed or the pictures were doctored) but if you go to youtube, search for nephilim, and see for yourself you might be dumbfounded like I was. Again, I don\'t want to spread paranoia and wild conspiracies but this is CRAZY stuff.
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How to Develop Your Psychic Ability Part 2
By Edgar Cayce
[Note: The following article is based on a lecture given by Edgar Cayce on 6/30/1932 at his home in Virginia Beach for the First Annual Congress of the A.R.E. It is included in the report document for reading 5752-2.]
Another definition of psychic forces would be found by comparing the finite and the infinite. These convey entirely different impressions to our minds.
The finite mind pertains wholly to our faculties or abilities—which may feed the soul, provided we give it whatever may build to sustain its life. But the infinite mind, about which the first question would be, "How can you know the infinite?" cannot be discerned through reason. It is the finite mind which tries to reason, to distinguish and to define by comparison—processes which are only a portion of the faculties called psychic forces. Thus infinite mind is outside the realm of ordinary reasoning. We can comprehend the infinite only by a faculty that is superior to reason. That faculty is the psychic force. One must enter a state in which the finite self no longer exists!
So often we pray as did the old lady who prayed for the hill to be moved; and every morning she looked out and said, "It is still there. I knew it would be."
We haven't gotten out of our finite reasoning self, so that the infinite can come in and aid. We must develop the faculty between the finite and the infinite, so that the infinite may become a portion of us. We seek to become one with the infinite by the reduction of our soul to its simplest self—its divine essence—and realize this union and identity.
Now, we might well go back and question how man developed this personality (finite) and how he lost his individuality, by losing the place he occupied with his Creator, in the beginning. This individuality is ever seeking to find expression through the faculties with which man has been endowed; for through these there may come expressions of the infinite, or God, into our lives.
We know that we have gradually lost our association, by our inability to close off our outer finite selves. In other words, we have thought so much about ourselves and the supplying of the needs of the physical, that we have gratified the fleshly desires until we have forgotten there is still an association of our soul with its Maker. That association is what we may choose to term psychic forces, or psychic abilities.
No one would deny that such faculties may be used by those who lose their physical consciousness; or that they may be discerned in a gathering which has been attuned to influences from within or without.
When we attempt to be very close to—or even on speaking terms with—our God, do we expect an answer? When we pray, do we always expect to get an answer? We must lose the finite self and be willing to be used, in whatsoever way or manner He sees fit. "Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him." He was not found among his brethren, because his faith was counted to him for righteousness. If our faith or if our abilities for that psychic faculty we all possess have been so abused and we have allowed them to be ridiculed because we see visions or hear things; then we have built a barrier which prevents the faculties latent within each individual from developing us toward the Infinite.
All that tends to purify and elevate the mind will assist us in this attainment, and will facilitate the approach and reoccurrence of these happy conditions. There are, then, different roads by which this end may be reached. The love of beauty which exalts the poet; that devotion to the One; that ascent of present science which makes the ambition of the philosopher; that love and those prayers by which some devout and ardent soul tends in its moral purity towards perfection—these all are the great highways conducting to the heights above the actual and the particular, where we may stand in the immediate presence of the Infinite which shines out from the depths of the soul.
The adherence to and developing of the ability to see and appreciate the beautiful, the pure, and the lovely in everything and everybody we contact—everything within the scope of what affects our body, mind and heart—will develop in us the abilities to be in closer attunement with the Infinite. And this is developing our psychic abilities within.
The answer comes to each one of us, as to whether these abilities are worth developing or not. If we have the proper conception of what psychic means, then we know it is a faculty which exists—has existed, and is ours by birthright; because we are sons and daughters of God. We have the ability to make association with the Spirit; for "God is Spirit and seeks such to worship Him." John 4:23
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PHILADELPHIA -- Even in this room, these men had uncommon knowledge. The Society for American Baseball Research put together a scholarly group of authors Friday for an enlightening panel discussion that explored the deep roots of the game in Philadelphia and back to the 19th century.
Most baseball fans know that the roots of the game go back beyond the American League and the National League, but they probably don't know it goes all the way back before the Civil War.
And not because Abner Doubleday invented it. Richard Hershberger, an author and expert on 19th century baseball, delved deep into the origins of the game. He said that the primitive version of baseball played in Philadelphia, town ball, had several similarities and differences to today's game.
The major difference? The bases were about 20 feet apart, he said, and a complete circuit around the bases was less than the distance from home plate to first base in the modern game. Hershberger said the ball probably didn't have much life to it, but that's one rare thing we can't know for sure.
"The game that was played in Philadelphia is unusually well documented, because it was played up to the Civil War and a little bit beyond. There are box scores. There are game accounts," Hershberger said. "When I say that it's a pre-modern version of baseball, what makes it baseball is that it has bases and it has a ball, and for the purposes of this discussion, it has a bat. And it has innings. So you have a team that's out in the field and a team that's at bat. A pitcher tries to throw the ball. A batter tries to hit the ball. The fielders try to catch the ball. The fielders try to put the runner out. That's baseball."
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John Thorn, the moderator for Friday's panel, advocated for the Union Grounds in Brooklyn, N.Y., but panel member Dr. Jerry Casway insisted that a local Philadelphia venue came first. They still hadn't come to an agreement by the end of the panel, but some things were seen in great clarity.
Norman Macht, the author of a three-volume biography on Connie Mack, shared his insights with the crowd on one of baseball's most beloved figures. Macht said he met Mack once as an 18-year-old, and he said that despite knowing him for 10 minutes, Mack was the most impressive man he's ever met.
"I've been accused by people who read the first three books of having my affection for him come through," said Macht of Mack. "And I don't think it's as much an accusation as it is a tribute. Because, in fact, I did not know the man and what came through was what I learned. What came through was the love and respect for him that his players had, that the newspaper writers that knew him well had, that the fans had for him all over the country. That his friends -- who were his friends for life once they met him -- had for him. I just want to make it clear that I had no biases. I went into it with no previous idea or preconcieved attitude toward him. Everything I found was reflected in what I wrote."
Thorn, stepping back into the fray, asked Macht if he thought Mack had broken up the 1914 Philadelphia Athletics due to a rumored World Series fix. Macht said that he felt the rumor was baseless, and furthermore, he even debated whether Mack had conducted a firesale.
"Between the end of the 1914 season and the start of the 1915 season, Connie Mack sold one player," Macht said. "Eddie Collins had been approached by the Federal League. He did not intend to jump to the Federal League, but Connie Mack realized that he could never pay Collins what he was worth.
"Connie Mack said to Collins, who did not want to leave Philadelphia: 'If you go to the White Sox, you will make a lot more money than I'll ever be able to pay you. If you don't want to go to the White Sox or anywhere else, you don't have to go.' ... When Collins found out what Charles Comiskey was willing to pay, he said, 'You'd have to be crazy not to take it.' And he took it and went to the White Sox."
Mack, amazingly, first took over the Athletics in 1901 and managed all the way through 1950, when he was 87. Macht said that he undoubtedly hung on too long and that by the end, people had forgotten the good times, but that they were still sad to see the Athletics move in 1955.
Philly may no longer be a two-team city, but Mack's Athletics won nine pennants and five World Series titles over his long stewardship. And if you listen to panel member David Jordan, they may have had the greatest team of all-time. For Jordan's money, nobody has ever been better than the 1929 A's.
"The 1911 A's were a very fine ballclub. However, in my opinion, the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics were the greatest team of all-time. This doesn't go over big in New York," Jordan said. "The A's of 1929 finished 18 games ahead of the Yankees, who still had most of the players from their great 1927 team on board. This was a team with Mickey Cochrane behind the plate and Al Simmons in the outfield. Jimmie Foxx. They had Hall of Famers all over the place. They had Lefty Grove, who may have been one of the very greatest left-handed pitchers of all-time. It was a great team and I've always thought that they were the best team of all-time. ... It's tough to match them and I'd put them up against anybody."
Rich Westcott, a Philadelphia sportswriter who has authored more than 20 books, provided insight into a more recent local team -- the 1993 Phillies. Westcott, who covered the team, said that the '93 Phillies were a really fun ride, despite ultimately losing in Game 6 of the World Series to the Blue Jays.
"It was a team that was very hard working, very determined," Westcott said. "They wanted to win every game and played hard to do that. Conversely, it was also a team made up of a bunch of loose cannons, in a way. Funny guys. Comedians. Very good at such things as cursing, swearing, spitting, drinking something stronger than a lemonade. And it was a very colorful group. Darren Daulton referred to the group as a bunch of 'gypsies, tramps and thieves,' and Daulton was the acknowledged team leader.
"Daulton sat in a lounge chair inside his locker and presided over the rest of the clubhouse, surrounded by a group that consisted of [Lenny] Dykstra, [John] Kruk, [Dave] Hollins and [Pete] Incaviglia. And that section was known as Macho Row. This team had a lot of nicknames, one of which was the Broad Street Bellies. ... This was a team of some very good players, but no superstars."


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Yes, this is a belated celebration. My Little Bookcase officially turned one on November 16. My family and I had some stormy weather to get through at the time, so the lovely Mandi Johnston wrote a gorgeous birthday post for me.
Party planning has been taking place for some time though, it's just taken me some time to get ready for a celebration.
So, without further ado, I officially invite you to join us in celebrating a very big milestone.
We've got yummy virtual food, special guests, and a fun game where you could win some very exclusive prizes.
I hope you can make it.
The Details:
- The Party will take place between 9.00pm-9.30pm (AEDT) on Tuesday 13 December ( Once the kiddies are asleep)
- At 9.00pm (AEDT) visit www.mylittlebookcase.com.au and let us know you're at the party by leaving a message under our Birthday Party post. (If you don't leave a message you won't be entered into our game of Pass the Parcel)
- Then head over to our facebook page where most of the party will take place. I'll ask some bookish questions and you'll have the chance to interact with some other guests at the party (Facebook makes it easy to keep track of the questions and threads). There might even be a few extra door prizes for keen participants.
- After we've had some time to get to know each other a little bit, we'll play a game of Pass the Parcel. One at a time I'll randomly select 11 party guests who will be chosen to hold a virtual parcel. They will be able to choose which prize is wrapped inside their virtual parcel before I select the next winner, and so on until all 11 prizes have been handed out.
If you'd really like to come along to the party but you're scared you'll forget to show up then leave a message at the end of this post and I'll send you a reminder email on Tuesday morning.
I bet you're wondering what prizes we're giving away. I contacted my three very favourite Australian illustrators along to the party.
Not only are my three favourite illustrators incredibly talented but they are also incredibly giving. Each is bringing along a unique gift to the party- which some lucky guests will take home. Illustrators earn a living through the sale of their illustrations and prints, making these gifts absolutely precious. (To be honest I'm really sad to be giving them away. I've found a spot in my house where they'd look perfect)
The wonderful people at Colorific also love a good celebration and wanted to help out at our party.
So here are the prizes we'll be giving away during Pass the Parcel:
- Freya Blackwood has provided us with a limited edition print from Maudie and Bear. The unframed print measures 33cm x 43cm and has been signed by Freya Blackwood.
- Freya Blackwood has provided us with a limited edition print from Clancy and the Very Fine House. The unframed print measures 59cm x 42cm and has been signed by Freya Blackwood.
- Peter Carnavas has provided one of his original illustrations. It was illustrated for Sarah's Heavy Heart but did not make it into the book. The unframed illustration measures 25cm x 26.5cm and has been signed by Peter Carnavas.
- Nick Bland asked if he could bring The Very Cranky Bear along to the party. Of course, I knew you'd all be thrilled. Nick Bland has provided us with The Very Cranky Bear Gift Boxes. They are valued at $24.99 and feature a book and plush toy. We have three to give away.
- Colorific has provided us with five My First Library Bags to giveaway. These bags can be coloured and personalised by your child. They are constructed with strong stitching and a drawstring close, and are valued at $9.99
I hope you can make it!


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The History of Gateway Computers
The company thrust itself into the public eye in 1991, when it began shipping its computer products in flashy piebald boxes and it would continue to grow over the next 10 years. As it did so, it outsourced a portion of its operations, such as technical customer support and in 2002, the firm moved into the field of consumer electronics. Its portfolio of products expanded to include MP3 players, DLP projectors, wireless routers, digital cameras and plasma TVs.
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The business only stayed in this field for a couple years, largely due to the short term potential for profit for this kind of hardware and Wayne Inouye (CEO at the time) moved to remove the company from this area in 2004. Despite scaling back operations considerably, Gateway still operates to this day as a third party online electronics retailer.
The company started life in 1985 in Iowa, when Mike Hammond and Ted Waitt created one of the very first direct sales computer enterprises. It took the lead from Dell and ran a unique marketing campaign that jokingly played with the idea that computers made in Iowa were an oddity.
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Gateway went on to be one of the leading manufacturers of home computers and was something of a trailblazer in the field that was in the middle of a polar shift towards Windows based architecture. The company produced one of the first viable portable machines and their 'sub-notebook' would become a staple for professionals in a number of industries that benefited from the technology.
By 1997, Gateway 2000 had released their first Smart TV, the 32 inch 'Destination' model which sported surround sound by Harman Kardon. Weighing in at a hefty 300 pounds and costing over $7,000, it was a breakthrough in home entertainment. Just 2 years later, the company produced the first PC costing less than $1,000, the 'all in one' Astro.
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In 2007, Gateway was acquired by Acer, the Far East computer giant, for just over $700m in order to consolidate the company's global presence according to chairman, J.T. Wang. Although technically not the same company, Gateway relaunched itself in Australia in 2009, selling laptops and netbooks on a much smaller scale.
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PDC - St. John Appoints Former Baxter Executive as Vice President, Marketing for North America Healthcare
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San Fernando, CA (December 7, 2011) – Precision Dynamics Corporation – St. John, a leading global provider of patient safety identification and healthcare labeling solutions, announced today that it has appointed John Park as the company's vice president of marketing for North America Healthcare. Most recently, Mr. Park was vice president, global marketing for Baxter Healthcare Corporation's BioScience division, responsible for the global strategy of its $3 billion hemophilia franchise.
Mr. Park will be responsible for the management of Precision Dynamics – St. John's North American Healthcare Marketing, Marketing Services, R&D, Database and Sales Operations teams. He will report to Tracey Carpentier, executive vice president and chief commercialization officer.
Mr. Park joins Precision Dynamics – St. John with more than 15 years of leadership experience in building and leading results-oriented commercial teams. He spent 11 years at Baxter in various strategy, product management, and marketing leadership roles. As Vice President for Global Marketing, he directed cross-functional commercial development teams toward approval of next generation products and business development opportunities. Prior to Baxter, Mr. Park worked for CSC Healthcare Group, a healthcare consulting company, where he managed the strategy consulting for Fortune 500 life sciences organizations. Mr. Park has a bachelor of arts, biological sciences degree from UC Santa Barbara, and an MBA degree and doctor of pharmacy degree from USC. He is also a registered pharmacist.
Ms. Carpentier said, "John brings extensive experience and a proven track record in driving successful and innovative product management, brand strategy, business development, and lead-generation programs for successful healthcare organizations. John's broad based, in-depth range of expertise and leadership will help Precision Dynamics – St. John to grow its existing markets and expand into new healthcare applications. His expertise and leadership will be instrumental in supporting our company's main focus of providing customers with outstanding products and services that support their goals of patient safety and efficient care management."
Mr. Park said, "I am pleased and privileged for the responsibility of leading Precision Dynamics – St. John's Marketing Team for North America Healthcare. The company has a remarkable reputation as a leading pioneer and innovator of patient safety solutions. With the merger of Precision Dynamics and St. John's earlier this year, and its tremendous potential as a global leader in the industry, I feel that I am joining the organization at an extremely exciting point in the company's development."
In January, 2011 Precision Dynamics Corporation ("PDC") merged with The St. John Companies Inc. ("St. John") to become the world's leading provider of identification and related patient safety solutions.
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With more than 50 years of experience, Precision Dynamics Corporation - St. John is the global leader and pacesetter in the development of wristband, label, medical records and imaging systems. The company specializes in serving the healthcare, leisure and entertainment, and law enforcement industries. The company introduced the first single-piece patient wristband, first bar code wristband system, first Smart Band® RFID wristband system, first thermal printer wristband, and the award winning PDC Smart® Kiosk.
Precision Dynamics Corporation - St. John products are used in leading hospitals worldwide and comprise a comprehensive range of solutions that provide positive ID and positive clinical outcomes, while meeting important guidelines of The Joint Commission, World Healthcare Organization, FDA, AHA, and HIPAA. As an ISO 9001 certified company, Precision Dynamics Corporation – St. John follows a systematic, world-standard approach to ensure superior product design, manufacturing, and customer support services. For more information, visit www.pdcorp.com and www.stjohninc.com.
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Boring, looks like it's from the 50's.
Coat is stupid, like the gloves.
Pretty dapper, need to lose the high heels.
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text: Achieving One-der-land Because of Farrell's! 02/06/2019 Blog category: Testimonials The summer of 2017 should have been one of the best summers. I had just gotten married to the love of my life and we were traveling on our honeymoon to the Pacific Northwest. But I was miserable. While traveling we had to stop every few blocks so I could sit down because I was out of breath. Any time my shoes came untied I had to have my husband help me tie them. I could no longer reach my feet because my mid-section had become so large. I hid all this despair from everyone around me and made excuses for myself. It was not until reality set in while I was looking at my wedding pictures – I finally grasped the reality of what I was doing to my body. A voice inside of me tried to tell me that I could be happy being at the size I was. That I could eat anything – that there was no way out. I would binge eat and hide food from everyone in my life. Each day I would come home from work and take a nap instead of walking with my dog. I was tired. Suddenly another voice told me that if I did not change, eventually my health would take a drastic turn for the worse. The Farrell's way… It took a couple of months after that realization, but I finally came to terms that something needed to change. If I wanted to start a family, I knew I needed to put excuses behind me to take charge of my life. A friend of mine started working out at Farrell's eXtreme Bodyshaping in the Twin Cities. The program peaked my interest and there was a Farrell's within a few miles of me. So, I enrolled in the summer 2017 10-Week Challenge and have never looked back. The first day was hard! I rolled out of bed for my first 5AM class. The place was foreign, scary, and I didn't know anyone. But the scariest part was stepping on that scale. You see I had avoided doing this for a long time. It was a reality that I needed to face. I stepped on their first scale, but to my horror the scale could not read my weight. They took me to another scale that could handle higher weights and saw the number: 367.6 lbs. How? Why? So many questions were running through my head. I could have run, but instead I decided it was time to stop making excuses. From that day forward, I promised myself that I would not let excuses stop me from my success. Kickboxing and Strength Training Kickboxing and strength training at 300+ lbs. were super hard at first. But harder than those workouts was the thought of not being able to move because of my weight. I pushed through and persevered through all the obstacles. At the end of the 10-Week Challenge I had increased my sit-ups and push-ups and knocked 4+ minutes off my mile run time and lost 37lbs. It was difficult and challenging, but my transformation in that short period of time was amazing. I was seeing it and others were too. I didn't step on a scale at all throughout my 10 weeks. So when I weighed in it was finally a happy time. I wasn't afraid of the scale anymore. The Farrell's 10-Week program was only the beginning. I had one of the best coaches around who challenged me, gave me advice, and encouraged me to enroll for the one-year challenge. Teamwork makes the dream work…. Quickly after becoming a FIT member, I realized that the people (my team) that I was working out with were becoming my family and friends. Working out daily with these people gives you a level of inspiration and they hold you accountable to show up and crush your goals. I am happy to also say that I am inspiring people in my family to join Farrell's and start their journey. The little victories are inspirational Throughout my year challenge I have been able to do things that I never thought possible. I crushed some non-scale victories I had set for myself along the way, including: Fitting into an airplane seat without a seat belt extender Going zip lining Running a 5K without stopping Training and running a half marathon Doing a rugged maniac Going rock climbing Setting goals the Farrell's way… I set some high goals at the beginning of my National Challenge year and I refused to give up! I followed the Farrell's program for fitness and nutrition closely and set milestones along the way. 50lbs lost, check. 75lbs lost, check. Then it happened. I lost 100lbs in March. A milestone I thought was so out of my reach at the beginning. I kept on with my goals and hit 150lbs lost. I was now at a weight that was lower than I was in the 6th grade and fitting into sizes I could not wrap my brain around. Every time I would try on a new lower size I would be overcome with emotion and tears. I was finally not letting my excuses get in the way of my success. The biggest goal through my year-long challenge was to get below 200lbs. To do this by my test out date would be challenging and require me to follow the Farrell's program closely. When my challenge test out date came, I did it! I was in One-der-land! I weighed in at 196.7lbs and lost 170LBS! My goal was met, through hard work, dedication, and perseverance. I proved to myself that I could do it! Not done yet… Now that the Farrell's National Challenge has come and gone I ask myself "what is next?" I am a goal-driven person and have set more FIT based and strength training goals. By developing a strong relationship with my body, I am confident that I can start a family with my husband and do it in a healthy way. I want to be able to run after my kids, play with them and not be out of breath. I want to teach them about healthy living and eating by being a good role model for them. I could not have done this without Farrell's and my incredible team. You all have changed my life. The Farrell's community is the answer to self-love… The Farrell's community is what keeps me coming back. Our owners, Cindi and Kerrie, are amazing and involved in the care of everyone who walks through their doors. It is more than a business to them. They truly help everyone on their journey and want to see them succeed. Cristina and Farrell's Coach AnnaMy coach Anna was by my side from day one. She was my kickboxing partner and has become a great friend and source of inspiration to me. We continue this journey together and to push each other daily. We are discovering new challenges and healthy ways. The friends that I have gained along the way have truly become family members to me and have helped shape my future. I want to continue being a coach at Farrell's and to help other members as I was helped. Working together we discover our FIT journey and the road to self-love. Testing out of this national challenge, I have proved to myself that I can do whatever I put my mind to. 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Planet discoverer: An interview with Didier Queloz
Last year saw an amazing number of extrasolar planet discoveries, with an unprecedented number of 25 in one announcement alone.
Didier Queloz and his colleagues at the Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland, have found many of these new planets, and their discoveries include the most tantalising one yet: a planet that closely resembles Jupiter in our own Solar System. These findings bring astronomers another step closer to detecting an Earth-like world.
Queloz is a member of ESA's Scientific Advisory Group for its Darwin planet-search mission. On Friday 14 June 2002, Queloz previewed his latest work at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands.
ESA: Which new discoveries have you made?
Didier Queloz
We have found 12 new planets. Among them, a new multiple system and most excitingly, a planet very similar to Jupiter (the biggest planet in our Solar System) in the sense that it is about the mass of Jupiter and has a similar orbit. Such planets are called Jupiter analogues by planet hunters and have long been a goal of such searches. It takes 7 years to orbit its star whereas Jupiter takes 12 years (known as the orbital period). The radius of its orbit is about 3.7 AU and Jupiter's is 5.2 AU. (1 AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun.and is about 150 million kilometres.) The key element, however, is that it has a circular orbit, not an elliptical one. This reminds us strongly of our own Solar System.
ESA: An American team found a larger planet at about the same distance from another star as Jupiter is from our own Sun. With your own Jupiter-like find, does this mean that planet-hunting has entered a new phase?
Didier Queloz
Yes, we are getting much closer to seeing solar systems like our own. The first planets we detected were the ones with short periods, completing an orbit in just a few days. They were the easiest to detect because they give the largest signals. Long-period planets take many years to complete a single orbit and you have to track them for a whole orbit. We have been following this one from the beginning (nearly a decade). They also require better sensitivity. This new planet makes its star move by just 17 metres every second compared to 59 metres per second for the first planet we detected in 1995. Now that we can see long-period planets, we can check for multiple planets in systems already known to contain a single planet and also look for Jupiter analogues that may indicate solar systems like our own. In this way, we can build up a more complete picture of the variety of planetary systems.
ESA: What does the future hold for European planet searches from the ground?
Didier Queloz
The future is great. We are building a new instrument for European astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO). This instrument is called HARPS and will be installed on the 3.6 metre telescope in La Silla in Chile. Compared to what we are doing today, HARPS will be about 100 times more efficient, allowing us to reach sensitivities of about 20-30 centimetres per second. We are planning to test it in the laboratory in one month's time and we have commissioning time scheduled on the telescope in February next year.
ESA: How important are ESA's space-based planet search missions?
Didier Queloz
They are essential. To me, the Eddington mission is really the next step because it is the only way to reach Earth-like systems. Eddington will use the transit method and detect the drop in a star's light, caused by a planet orbiting in front of it and if you want to get enough accuracy to detect the transit of an Earth-sized world you need to go into space. Eddington will detect ten or a hundred times more planets than we can from the ground. Then Gaia will open another window because it should detect something like ten thousand planets. This is a crucial next step after Eddington because if you look at the past history of stellar astrophysics, people start to understand what is going on only when they can study a few thousand examples of celestial objects.
ESA: The Darwin mission will attempt to take pictures of Earth-like worlds and analyse their atmospheres for signs of life. What do you consider are its chances of success?
Didier Queloz
ESA's Darwin is a fantastic project for me because, behind all of this planet quest, is this question of life on other worlds. I am optimistic. Why should Earth be a kind of strange system with life? If we try to look for other intelligence, however, then I think they might be rare; perhaps there is only one civilisation per galaxy. But for basic life, I'm sure it has to be there. So, Darwin is very likely to be successful.


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The win by President Obama was a win for facts. For reality. For truth, if you will. Does this mean Obama only told the truth on the way back to the White House? Hell no. He's a politician. But unlike Mitt Romney, his entire campaign wasn't based on a foundation of lies. Actually – it was worse than that – Mitt's was founded on an alternate reality. He argued against a health care system that was based on one he had introduced as Governor of Massachusetts. He argued that he and his running mate Paul Ryan were fiscal conservatives all the while running with a tax policy that didn't add up. He was for abortion, against it, for it, against it; he said he would create 12 million jobs in 4 years and based this assertion on reports that said he might create 7 million jobs over 10 years and an extra 3.6 million jobs over the next 8 years and 2 million jobs from "cracking down on China" which no one would suggest would occur. He lied about Obama and the auto bailout – probably the final lie really – the one that broke the back of the voters carrying 12 months plus of bullshit. He and the GOP lied and lied and lied.
In these lies Mitt was unfortunately assisted by the right-wing elements of the media in the USA – namely Fox News, talk-back hosts like Rush Limbaugh and blogs like the Drudge Report.
Everything Obama did was "a conspiracy". I fully envision in the next few months "Hurricane Sandy Truthers' coming out to show how Obama actually did things to ensure the Hurricane hit the east coast when it did, and that he probably did an under the table deal with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to get him to thank Obama for his efforts. You know it's true.
Anytime Obama said anything that if twisted could be shown to be a "he clearly hates America" "gaffe" then we'd see it. From "You didn't build that" (oh my God did the right wing think that would cost Obama the election) right up till last weekend when Obama quietened a crowd that was booing mention of Romney's name by saying "no, no. Don't boo. Vote. Vote. Voting is the best revenge."
And of course the right wingers and Mitt played ignorance on ever having heard a line like "Living well is the best revenge", and thinking it was a play on that; instead Obama hated America:
But in the end Mitt was just telling those who were already firmly lodged in his fundament that what they were smelling was roses and honey. And it wasn't.
We see this factless and reality lost politics here in Australia as well. Our debt will have us like Greece and Spain; the carbon price will kill the economy; Julia Gillard is just a gender card playing victim who was a corrupt lawyer; welfare is bad except when the Govt decides to take some away; climate change is a global conspiracy; we're on the cusp of a wages breakout; the unions are back in charge; the mining tax will send mining off to Sierra Leone; the newspolls are rigged; the newspolls are the only polls that matter; gay marriage will destroy our society; low interest rates are bad; low interest rates are good; if we don't have a surplus that means Labor never wants to pay off the debt.
Look there are more – and Labor throws out a few of them as well – mostly related to asylum seekers.
But this type of debate led by fools who use data when it suits and then promptly ignore it – or suggest it no longer really matters – helps no one. It leads to a debate where it boils down to "ideology". Today in The Australian, Adam Creighton, apparently with a straight face, wrote:
CALLS for more "evidence-based policy" in Australia are routine. For former prime minister Kevin Rudd, under whose watch little reform occurred, it was "at the heart of being a reformist government".
But more "ideology-based policy" is what this country needs. Evidence is useless without underlying principles to guide what to do with it. Statistics are often crafted from poor data and reported tendentiously.
Yep, apparently we suffer from too much data. But don't worry Creighton knows how to fix things:
How can we improve productivity in Australia? Shrink government and thereby expand the fraction of the labour force producing goods and services that people are willing to pay for.
Does he offer any proof that this is correct? Proof? What are you a hippie? If you don't know that this is true then clearly your ideology is wrong and really it's time for you to piss off and let the intelligent people run the country. Don't worry about the fact that such an assertion is bollocks – it won't do anything for productivity because if you expand the labour force producing goods, you only improve productivity if that increased labour force produces goods more efficiently than does the current market sector of the economy. Shrinking the government won't do anything to improve the productivity of the mining sector.
He continues:
At the federal level, abolish patently absurd departments -- and their attendant expenditures -- such as "innovation", "climate change", "agriculture", and "families". At the state level, contract out the management and operation of hospitals and schools and deliver subsidies direct to the people consuming these services.
At the local level, sack diversity officers and community outreach programs in favour of fixing potholes and approving new developments.
How wonderful life is when you don't need to support your assertions with evidence. You get to kill off everything in society you don't like. I really should have adopted this strategy earlier.
Creighton ends with this doozy:
Not only does "evidence-based policy" thwart sensible reform with a barrage of data, the very process of producing statistics and "evidence" encourages governments to meddle with the economy. No one would pay to know Australia's gross domestic product or supposed aggregate productivity, for instance. Australia would be far freer and more prosperous if government produced fewer statistics.
Yep. There you go – finally the solution to our productivity. Less data! And why? Does he have evidence to support this? (You know for those deluded types who still think evidence maters). Why nope. He just asserts:
Australian businesses do not even measure their productivity in the way the Australian Bureau of Statistics does. They are more interested in profit, a far more reliable indicator of success.
To the extent any principle guides modern economic policy it is a crude utilitarianism that mandates fleecing the many to curry political favour with the few.
What a seriously fucked up vision of the world this bloke has (see I was using ideology there, not evidence). He asserts his ideology is right because it's his ideology. So what does he do if he meets someone who disagrees with him? Well clearly evidence is not what we need, we just need whoever is strongest to prevail. Because that's what happens when you trumpet ideology over evidence. If you want to see the germ of every totalitarian regime in history it starts with people asserting ideology over facts.
But it's not surprising that Creighton would argue such things given back in April he wrote:
It doesn't matter which party is in power. As Winston Churchill said, democracy may be the best form of government among known alternatives, but it is probably not sustainable.
Democracies subsidise bad decisions. Voters, especially ones who pay no tax, care little for the preferences of future generations. The benefits of considered, sensible votes and the costs of careless ones mainly accrue to other people.
Yeah, that cursed democracy.
It is the view that flows underneath most of the right wing's commentary post the Obama win. Take this nausea inducing excrement from RMIT lecturer of Economics Steve Kates on why Obama won:
The confluence of the mendicants, the envious, the abortion lobby, what I will call the cohort of damaged women, and the social sciences know-nothings has proven a formidable combination. They are a new constituency amalgamation that will affect the politics of the United States for the foreseeable future.
Damaged women? Yep, you see women are now all pretty slutty really – they conform to the Playboy view of the world, but unfortunately it has left them hurt:
But who has come out of this genuinely hurt by the changed attitude to women. Both men and women are worse for it, but if you ask me, it is women who have been psychologically damaged far more than the men. And I suspect Miss 29 has not avoided the deep and fearsome pains of commitment-free sexual relations either.
These are the attitudes that Obama was tapping into. Watching the Middle East burn and the American economy trashed by debt and deficits are irrelevant to such women whose anger is beyond all understanding, particularly for men of my and Romney's generation.
I sure as shit wouldn't want to have to make a list of things that are beyond Kates's understanding.
He ends:
We are in dangerous times. Obama and Gillard are two of a kind. Empty of ability, proven failures at everything they have tried to achieve, but nevertheless able to command majorities in the legislative systems of our two nations. But the American election is the one that will matter most and whose outcome will resonate far into the future in ways that are incalculable. Re-electing Obama has endangered our way of life and may even make it unsustainable.
It's almost impossible where to begin with such a paragraph. Perhaps it is best not to at all. It's perhaps best just to quietly walk past and hope Kates doesn't catch our gaze.
But Kates is not alone. Many of his Quadrant mates are on board the unhinged express. Try this on for size from Christopher Carr:
At this early stage, a few random thoughts will have to do. It seems that there are two Americas, which inhabit parallel universes. In addition to the obvious demographic divisions, there is an information division. Unless voters were tuned to the Fox News Network or followed conservative blogs, they would scarcely have heard of the scandal concerning the White House's repeated denial of requests for backup during the terrorist attack at Benghazi. The mainstream media did a brilliant job covering for Obama.
Mitt Romney played Mr Nice Guy. President Obama played the demagogue.
Wait. Fox News? The same Fox News that used graphs repeatedly to mislead and outright lie? The same Fox News that frequently refers to "we" when talking about the Republican Party?
And if you still have any strength left, go read Peter Smith parrot every blog written on the National Review where he blames the loss on Obama being mean to Mitt and painting him as an evil capitalist (and ignoring that that was exactly what his fellow Republicans did during the Primaries).
There's only so much delusion you can handle. And it helps no one – not even the other side – because what usually happens is when the contest of ideas becomes a contest of ideology then stupidity rises.
On this aspect Rachel Maddow of MSNBC conveys it all perfectly, and I have no more to add:


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A long time ago I was using a 100Mhz machine to serve as a networked torrent slave; it's a fantastic use for an out-of-date computer and one that requires almost nothing in resources. The example I built had only 16Mb of memory and almost nothing else, and it worked fine … more or less.
I've experimented a little more with rtorrent since then — in particular watching the system load on a 120Mhz machine with 80Mb of memory. Here's a little picture of rtorrent with htop running alongside it in Ubuntu 9.10, so you can get a mental picture of what's happening.
I have about 12 torrents running at once there, some seeding and some downloading. The idea was like the one I had a few months ago, just to dump as much as possible on rtorrent and see what kind of space it takes up.
Keeping in mind that my normal desktop "suite" is also running 🙄 , the greatest strain on the processor seems to come when bandwidth is high. Just dumping torrents on it didn't make it flicker at all, until the network transactions began to climb.
At the same time, memory load there is higher — much higher, in some ways — than what is normal for me, and that seems to come about when the torrents are added. Memory demands increased sharply as I added torrents, but fell away just as quickly when I removed them one by one.
The only reason this is worth mentioning is because some machines — particularly early Pentiums, like the one I was using — have a fused set of 16Mb or so built into the machine, and are expandable to a small degree beyond that. If you can't get the right chips (SIMMs or S0DIMMs whatever they were called in your generation) and you're forced to rely on a very slim memory profile, you'll have to likewise manage the number of torrents you handle. Too many torrents will push the machine beyond its memory limits.
At the same time, a few popular torrents might push the processor to its maximum continually, and that too can be a detriment. The obvious way to prevent that is to throttle the upload and download controls, so there's less chance of overwhelming the machine and causing a system failure.


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